Intro: "Scientists confirmed on Thursday that they have discovered oil on dead dolphins found along the US Gulf Coast, raising fresh concerns about the effects of last year's BP oil spill on sea life."

Veterinary technician Wendy Hatchett lifts a dead bottle-nose dolphin that was found on Ono Island, Alabama, and brought for examination to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Mississippi, 02/22/11. (photo: Patrick Semansky/AP)

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BP lawyers/money are controlling research process/data. In present corporate power structure we can predict negative findings re BP with 100% accuracy.Whole ecosystem is destroyed/weakened by oil spill - and the proof is BP OIL in the dead/killed organism - especially in keystone specie like dolphin ..does not mean much - except for ignorant lawyers.seems that Noami Klein knows more ecology than "NOAA officials". If you are on the top of the food chain and your food (invertebrates) are destroyed by oil spill - your organism is weak, susceptible to disease - oil absence in the body of dolphin or turtle means NOTHING.

In less than a year we have seen two E.L.E.-Extinction Level Events-first the BP oil spill and now the Fuk U Shima nuclear disaster. The only thing left, I fear, is to choose the manner of our death, as the time has been chosen for us by the greed and Evil of corporations and that time is fast approaching.

95% of the cancer in US is caused by chemicals - strawberries loaded with pesticides. Dogs at 8 years of age having $5000 "cancer" operation.I believe that all this poison is not only exterminating animals. "by the greed and Evil of corporations - PROFIT, PROFIT, PROFIT - western "civilization".

Surprise! Oil affects living things! Chemicals wash ashore, run through rivers, wash into underground water systems, are blown into underground water systems during fracking, mining and simply peeing into your toilet.

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